Please see information sent to your Redlands email by March 16th for your exact selection time.

Room Draw allows students who will be living in certain traditional residence hall communities to choose their room for the following academic year. Room Draw is only for Anderson, Cal-Founders, Cortner, Grossmont, and Melrose Halls. All other communities will have been decided by this time. There is no need to attend Room Draw if you have received your placement already for one of the following:

Accommodations
Johnston Complex
Themed Communities (Brockton Transfer, Merriam, Fairmont, Anderson Music, North)
Prior Off Campus Approved (Students who have not yet been approved to live off campus for the upcoming year should still participate in Room Draw.)

Additional information for Room Draw:

On campus students will receive lottery letters in their Redlands emails approximately two days prior to Room Draw. This letter will contain your randomly assigned Room Draw number. This number determines when you will have your opportunity to go through the room draw process. Similar to class registration, you will be able to log into the Housing Director in advance, but you will not be able to select your room until the time provided in your letter.

The majority of rooms on campus are double and triple rooms, but a few quads are available. Be sure to look around to see what’s out there in plenty of time. Check out the online floor plans. Halls will also be open on March 10 from 9 to 10 p.m. so that you can visit places you have never seen.

When your Room Draw time arrives, you will be able to view available spaces in the Housing Director and make your selection. All of this will take place online and from wherever you are.

The lowest number of the group can be used to select a room for a set of roommates/suitemates.

Students are strongly advised to select roommates prior to their designated Room Draw time! If you choose to go through the selection process without a roommate, you will be randomly assigned a roommate. Remember too, that Student Life reserves the right to move students who have no roommate by the end of Room Draw for the purposes of consolidation.

If you did not get the placement you were hoping for, there are a wide variety of waiting lists in the Housing Director. Feel free to add yourself to as many of the waiting lists as you like, but only add yourself to waiting lists if you actually prefer that space to the space you selected. You can go back into the Housing Director at any time between your Room Draw time and July 31 to update your waiting lists or remove yourself.

Johnston Room Drawis held at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17 in Holt Hall. Students interested in living on complex must attend the Johnston Room Draw. If you are not an academically Johnston student or already a Johnston community member, you must contact adam_ghovayzi@redlands.edu in advance.